Luck out on ebay

Nice coin Gary. I have an uglier one - which I also got on eBay a while back in a lot for $7.19. When I was trying to attribute it, I had a hard time finding very many examples - it does appear to be scarce. I originally posted it here:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ju...nus-pius-sestertius-ugly.317005/#post-3089974

Here it is again:



Antoninus Pius Æ Sestertius
(140-144 A.D.)
Rome Mint
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS [PP TR P COS III], laureate head rt. slight drapery on left shoulder / [IVNONI SISPITAE] (?) S-C, Juno Sospita walking right, with spear & long shield, snake.
RIC 608 (or rev. leg. variety?)
(24.25 grams / 32 mm)

 

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As for mis-described eBay listings, this might be my best find recently, a Herennius Etruscus Æ 25 from Rhesaena, Mesopotamia. I resurrected an old thread from John Anthony a couple days ago, but it is lost in the World Coin section. It was under $20.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/s-alexander-rhesaena-ae26.238154/#post-3236333

This was mis-attributed AE said to be a Commodus as (eBay). It is a hard-to-photo coin, but I was pretty sure it was not Commodus before I bid (the portrait's all wrong, even for a Provincial), but I thought it looked interesting and thought it would give me something to research. After a lot of digging, I believe it is Rhesaena (a place I'd never heard of), an issue for Herennius Etruscus showing the priest plowing with oxen.



Herennius Etruscus Æ 25
Rhesaena, Mesopotamia
(c. 249-251 A.D.)
Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, [ΓAIMEΣ]EPETPOYΣKI[ΛΛIOΣ ΔEKIOΣΣEB] / CEΠ KOΛ ΡHCAINHCIΩN L III P, founder ploughing right with yoke of oxen, eagle above standing left on palm branch, holding wreath in beak, half figure of river god Chaboras swimming right in exergue.
RPC 1593; Castelin 178-80.
(12.25 grams / 25 mm)